Celtics (33-18) at Lakers (42-13) 2/18

[ejk3489]

I like that he's not calling a TO.

This team needs to learn how to play through it.

Yeah but they never learn. This is how we lose all these games/leads.

[Who]

That was a game-changing spurt right there.

The Lakers deserve a lot of praise for how they've played tonight. Good mental toughness to stay in this game despite the Celtics strong performance + Boston building several good leads.

[fanofgreen]

Ray Allen got 1 touch during that stretch! 1! 1 touch during that stretch!

[Larry for 3]

doc knew there was a tv timeout coming, easy people, easy

[Spicoli]

Doc!!!!

[vinnie]

It was good that they let Vujacic inside for two easy layups too. Unbelievable this team.

[mjammz54]

Another epic collapse, we look horrible, we are going to end up losing this game by double digits. Doesnt Doc get it when Sheed is in the game our offense and defense goes to Edited.  Profanity and masked profanity are against forum rules and may result in discipline.. We suck so bad.. this game is over

[kozlodoev]

It will, of course, also help if the Lakers actually get called for fouls when they clobber us inside.

[PosImpos]

The Celtics are only winning because of their hot outside shooting.  Law of averages says they'll stop hitting those shots eventually.  We're seeing it happen now.

The Celtics can't score inside against long, agile teams like the Lakers, and it's going to cost them this game.

[Spicoli]

That timeout should have been called when the lead was cut to 5.

[crownsy]

And here we go. ANd it's another blown double-digit lead.

the frustrating thing to me is it was a 10-0 run predicated on speed, and doc signaled TWICE to rondo to play on while Perk and KG waited at the scorer's table.

Me, i would have called a timeout somewhere around 5-0 and gotten the lakers to slow down and get my starter's in, but i'm just a blog jockey....

[hpantazo]

I bet they call the 5th foul on KG in less than 2 minutes

[vinnie]

That was a game-changing spurt right there.

The Lakers deserve a lot of praise for how they've played tonight. Good mental toughness to stay in this game despite the Celtics strong performance + Boston building several good leads.

Lakers - without their best player -- go on a 10-0 run. Celtics offense collapses, shot selection horrible, players forget to box out. And it's tied.

[buellj814]

ok... DEEP BREATH

[CelticSooner]

Another dogfight.

Just gotta hope the C's pull it out.